Food Safety News - 02/20/2022 USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service names food safety fellows

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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service names food safety fellows By News Desk on Feb 20, 2022 12:05 am The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is continuing its Food Safety Fellow program through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education with support from the USDA’s Office of Food Safety. The FSIS has selected six fellows for fiscal year 2022. The fellows are students currently working toward... Continue Reading Consumer group wants to know what FDA is doing about poppy seed safety By Center for Science in the Public Interest on Feb 20, 2022 12:04 am – OPINION – A year ago the Center for Science in the Public Interest urged the Food and Drug Administration to protect consumers from unprocessed poppy seeds contaminated with naturally occurring opiate residues. In a regulatory petition filed along with medical experts and six families injured by contaminated poppy seeds, we asked the agency to... Continue Reading Many countries received recalled infant formula linked to outbreak; one death under investigation By Coral Beach on Feb 19, 2022 02:33 pm Recalls are being issued worldwide for powdered infant formula, including Similac, following the announcement of recalls in the United States and Canada. Those recalls include actions in Singapore and New Zealand and are related to an outbreak in the United States that has seen at least four children hospitalized. One death is being investigated by... Continue Reading FDA issues warning against some products from Family Dollar stores after thousands of dead rodents found By News Desk on Feb 19, 2022 02:02 pm The FDA is warning consumers in several states to throw out products in a number of categories, including human food, because of a severe rodent infestation in a distribution facility in Arkansas. The implicated states are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. No recalls have been initiated for the products, but the Food and... Continue Reading